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The building of the community & administrative structure of this new world Faith was at the core of Bahai programs & policies, goals & game-plans, so to speak, from 1921 to 1996, a period of 75 years, and as far back as the last years of the 19th century. This book, of which this document at BLO is Part A, is 790 pages font 16, and 680 pages font 14. The book has 280 thousand words. It contains reflections and understandings regarding the new Baha'i culture of learning and growth, what amounts to a paradigmatic shift, in the Bahai community. This international community found in over 230 countries and territories, as well as an estimated 150 thousand localities, has been going through this shift in its culture since the mid-1990s.]]>
The building of the community & administrative structure of this new world Faith was at the core of Bahai programs & policies, goals & game-plans, so to speak, from 1921 to 1996, a period of 75 years, and as far back as the last years of the 19th century. This book, of which this document at BLO is Part A, is 790 pages font 16, and 680 pages font 14. The book has 280 thousand words. It contains reflections and understandings regarding the new Baha'i culture of learning and growth, what amounts to a paradigmatic shift, in the Bahai community. This international community found in over 230 countries and territories, as well as an estimated 150 thousand localities, has been going through this shift in its culture since the mid-1990s.]]> Wed, 22 Apr 2015 05:42:57 GMT /slideshow/the-bahai-culture-of-learning-and-growth-1996-to-2015/47282108 RonPrice@slideshare.net(RonPrice) The Baha'i Culture of Learning and Growth: 1996 to 2015 RonPrice The building of the community & administrative structure of this new world Faith was at the core of Bahai programs & policies, goals & game-plans, so to speak, from 1921 to 1996, a period of 75 years, and as far back as the last years of the 19th century. This book, of which this document at BLO is Part A, is 790 pages font 16, and 680 pages font 14. The book has 280 thousand words. It contains reflections and understandings regarding the new Baha'i culture of learning and growth, what amounts to a paradigmatic shift, in the Bahai community. This international community found in over 230 countries and territories, as well as an estimated 150 thousand localities, has been going through this shift in its culture since the mid-1990s. <img style="border:1px solid #C3E6D8;float:right;" alt="" src="https://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/ss_thumbnails/paradigm-21-4-15-150422054257-conversion-gate02-thumbnail.jpg?width=120&amp;height=120&amp;fit=bounds" /><br> The building of the community &amp; administrative structure of this new world Faith was at the core of Bahai programs &amp; policies, goals &amp; game-plans, so to speak, from 1921 to 1996, a period of 75 years, and as far back as the last years of the 19th century. This book, of which this document at BLO is Part A, is 790 pages font 16, and 680 pages font 14. The book has 280 thousand words. It contains reflections and understandings regarding the new Baha&#39;i culture of learning and growth, what amounts to a paradigmatic shift, in the Bahai community. This international community found in over 230 countries and territories, as well as an estimated 150 thousand localities, has been going through this shift in its culture since the mid-1990s.
The Baha'i Culture of Learning and Growth: 1996 to 2015 from Ron Price
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JESSE OWENS and THE RACE ....little did we know Part 1: My mother was 32 and my father 46 when American track and field athlete, Jesse Owens, won four Olympic gold medals. This stunning triumph of the most famous athlete at the 1936 Olympic Games captivated the world even as it infuriated the Nazis. My parents had not yet met in 1936, although they both worked in the lunch-pail city of Hamilton Ontario. They would meet at some time before WW2 broke out, or in the first years of that terrible conflict. I don't know exactly when they did meet; they have long since passed away and so I will never know. But much is known about the late 30s and early 40s. Modern history is replete with information: Donald Bradman, the cricket legend was scoring 100s of runs in his winning ways; the first players were elected to baseball's hall of fame; the first Volkswagen was built; Alan Turing submitted On Computable Numbers for publication, and in this work he set out the theoretical basis for modern computers; two days later, on 30 May 1936, Shoghi Effendi asked the North American Baha'i community to design the first systematic teaching plan.1 I have been associated with extensions of that plan for more than 60 years. Part 1.1: Despite the racial slurs he endured, Jesse Owens' grace and athleticism rallied crowds across the globe. But when the four-time Olympic gold-medalist returned home, he could not even ride in the front of a bus. Jesse Owens(1913-1980) is the story of the 22-year-old son of a sharecropper who triumphed over adversity to become a hero and world champion. His story is also about the elusive, fleeting quality of fame and the way Americans idolize athletes when they suit their purpose, and forget them once they don't.2 Last night I watched a documentary on Jesse Owens.2 I am looking forward to the 2015 biopic Race starring Stephan James who will play Olympic legend Jesse Owens. This is the work of director Stephen Hopkins' which began shooting on 24 July 2014 in Montreal, and on location at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin. The film will be released in April 2015. Part 2: The atmosphere around the 1936 Berlin Olympics was highly politically charged. Originally opposed to the idea of the games, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler was convinced by his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels that they were the perfect opportunity to showcase the superiority of Aryan athletes. Hitler presided over the opening day ceremonies, whipping the crowds into a frenzy of excitement. On 3 August 1936, when Jesse Owens stepped into the massive new Olympic Stadium in Berlin, the crowd went silent with anticipation, sitting on the edge of their seats to see the much-talked-about track star from America compete against the Germans.]]>
JESSE OWENS and THE RACE ....little did we know Part 1: My mother was 32 and my father 46 when American track and field athlete, Jesse Owens, won four Olympic gold medals. This stunning triumph of the most famous athlete at the 1936 Olympic Games captivated the world even as it infuriated the Nazis. My parents had not yet met in 1936, although they both worked in the lunch-pail city of Hamilton Ontario. They would meet at some time before WW2 broke out, or in the first years of that terrible conflict. I don't know exactly when they did meet; they have long since passed away and so I will never know. But much is known about the late 30s and early 40s. Modern history is replete with information: Donald Bradman, the cricket legend was scoring 100s of runs in his winning ways; the first players were elected to baseball's hall of fame; the first Volkswagen was built; Alan Turing submitted On Computable Numbers for publication, and in this work he set out the theoretical basis for modern computers; two days later, on 30 May 1936, Shoghi Effendi asked the North American Baha'i community to design the first systematic teaching plan.1 I have been associated with extensions of that plan for more than 60 years. Part 1.1: Despite the racial slurs he endured, Jesse Owens' grace and athleticism rallied crowds across the globe. But when the four-time Olympic gold-medalist returned home, he could not even ride in the front of a bus. Jesse Owens(1913-1980) is the story of the 22-year-old son of a sharecropper who triumphed over adversity to become a hero and world champion. His story is also about the elusive, fleeting quality of fame and the way Americans idolize athletes when they suit their purpose, and forget them once they don't.2 Last night I watched a documentary on Jesse Owens.2 I am looking forward to the 2015 biopic Race starring Stephan James who will play Olympic legend Jesse Owens. This is the work of director Stephen Hopkins' which began shooting on 24 July 2014 in Montreal, and on location at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin. The film will be released in April 2015. Part 2: The atmosphere around the 1936 Berlin Olympics was highly politically charged. Originally opposed to the idea of the games, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler was convinced by his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels that they were the perfect opportunity to showcase the superiority of Aryan athletes. Hitler presided over the opening day ceremonies, whipping the crowds into a frenzy of excitement. On 3 August 1936, when Jesse Owens stepped into the massive new Olympic Stadium in Berlin, the crowd went silent with anticipation, sitting on the edge of their seats to see the much-talked-about track star from America compete against the Germans.]]> Tue, 17 Feb 2015 20:11:33 GMT /slideshow/jesse-owens-44810772/44810772 RonPrice@slideshare.net(RonPrice) Jesse Owens: A Retrospective RonPrice JESSE OWENS and THE RACE ....little did we know Part 1: My mother was 32 and my father 46 when American track and field athlete, Jesse Owens, won four Olympic gold medals. This stunning triumph of the most famous athlete at the 1936 Olympic Games captivated the world even as it infuriated the Nazis. My parents had not yet met in 1936, although they both worked in the lunch-pail city of Hamilton Ontario. They would meet at some time before WW2 broke out, or in the first years of that terrible conflict. I don't know exactly when they did meet; they have long since passed away and so I will never know. But much is known about the late 30s and early 40s. Modern history is replete with information: Donald Bradman, the cricket legend was scoring 100s of runs in his winning ways; the first players were elected to baseball's hall of fame; the first Volkswagen was built; Alan Turing submitted On Computable Numbers for publication, and in this work he set out the theoretical basis for modern computers; two days later, on 30 May 1936, Shoghi Effendi asked the North American Baha'i community to design the first systematic teaching plan.1 I have been associated with extensions of that plan for more than 60 years. Part 1.1: Despite the racial slurs he endured, Jesse Owens' grace and athleticism rallied crowds across the globe. But when the four-time Olympic gold-medalist returned home, he could not even ride in the front of a bus. Jesse Owens(1913-1980) is the story of the 22-year-old son of a sharecropper who triumphed over adversity to become a hero and world champion. His story is also about the elusive, fleeting quality of fame and the way Americans idolize athletes when they suit their purpose, and forget them once they don't.2 Last night I watched a documentary on Jesse Owens.2 I am looking forward to the 2015 biopic Race starring Stephan James who will play Olympic legend Jesse Owens. This is the work of director Stephen Hopkins' which began shooting on 24 July 2014 in Montreal, and on location at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin. The film will be released in April 2015. Part 2: The atmosphere around the 1936 Berlin Olympics was highly politically charged. Originally opposed to the idea of the games, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler was convinced by his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels that they were the perfect opportunity to showcase the superiority of Aryan athletes. Hitler presided over the opening day ceremonies, whipping the crowds into a frenzy of excitement. On 3 August 1936, when Jesse Owens stepped into the massive new Olympic Stadium in Berlin, the crowd went silent with anticipation, sitting on the edge of their seats to see the much-talked-about track star from America compete against the Germans. <img style="border:1px solid #C3E6D8;float:right;" alt="" src="https://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/ss_thumbnails/jesseowens-150217201133-conversion-gate01-thumbnail.jpg?width=120&amp;height=120&amp;fit=bounds" /><br> JESSE OWENS and THE RACE ....little did we know Part 1: My mother was 32 and my father 46 when American track and field athlete, Jesse Owens, won four Olympic gold medals. This stunning triumph of the most famous athlete at the 1936 Olympic Games captivated the world even as it infuriated the Nazis. My parents had not yet met in 1936, although they both worked in the lunch-pail city of Hamilton Ontario. They would meet at some time before WW2 broke out, or in the first years of that terrible conflict. I don&#39;t know exactly when they did meet; they have long since passed away and so I will never know. But much is known about the late 30s and early 40s. Modern history is replete with information: Donald Bradman, the cricket legend was scoring 100s of runs in his winning ways; the first players were elected to baseball&#39;s hall of fame; the first Volkswagen was built; Alan Turing submitted On Computable Numbers for publication, and in this work he set out the theoretical basis for modern computers; two days later, on 30 May 1936, Shoghi Effendi asked the North American Baha&#39;i community to design the first systematic teaching plan.1 I have been associated with extensions of that plan for more than 60 years. Part 1.1: Despite the racial slurs he endured, Jesse Owens&#39; grace and athleticism rallied crowds across the globe. But when the four-time Olympic gold-medalist returned home, he could not even ride in the front of a bus. Jesse Owens(1913-1980) is the story of the 22-year-old son of a sharecropper who triumphed over adversity to become a hero and world champion. His story is also about the elusive, fleeting quality of fame and the way Americans idolize athletes when they suit their purpose, and forget them once they don&#39;t.2 Last night I watched a documentary on Jesse Owens.2 I am looking forward to the 2015 biopic Race starring Stephan James who will play Olympic legend Jesse Owens. This is the work of director Stephen Hopkins&#39; which began shooting on 24 July 2014 in Montreal, and on location at the Olympic Stadium in Berlin. The film will be released in April 2015. Part 2: The atmosphere around the 1936 Berlin Olympics was highly politically charged. Originally opposed to the idea of the games, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler was convinced by his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels that they were the perfect opportunity to showcase the superiority of Aryan athletes. Hitler presided over the opening day ceremonies, whipping the crowds into a frenzy of excitement. On 3 August 1936, when Jesse Owens stepped into the massive new Olympic Stadium in Berlin, the crowd went silent with anticipation, sitting on the edge of their seats to see the much-talked-about track star from America compete against the Germans.
Jesse Owens: A Retrospective from Ron Price
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Part 1: Laura (Riding) Jackson(1901-1991) was an American poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer whom I came to know about in the first years of my retirement after a 50 year student-and-paid-employment life: 1949 to 1999. In 1938 W.H. Auden called her "the only living philosophical poet, and in 1939 another American poet, Robert Fitzgerald, expressed the hope that with the 1938 publication of her Collected Poems, "the authority and the dignity of truth-telling, lost by poetry to science, may gradually be regained."1 For the last two days I have spent many hours reading about this most philosophical of poets who has come onto the radar of many writers and poets since the early 1990s, partly due to the extensive publication of her work which has continued since her death in 1991. I began reading and writing poetry seriously, myself, in the early 1990s. I first heard of Laura Riding back in the 1990s, but time and circumstance, responsibilities and health issues, prevented me from taking a serious look at her life and work. Part 1.1: Jack Blackmore, in a paper given at The Laura (Riding) Jackson Conference in 2010 expressed the view that: "There are affinities between Riding, Coleridge, and William Blake. There is a common optimism and conviction: that ones self, one self, through the most intense scrutiny of and engagement with language and life, can take the measure of the universe."2 Blackmore included the following quotation from Coleridge to support that poet's affinity with Riding: "The Poet is not only the man who is made to solve the riddle of the Universe, but he is also the man who feels where it is not solved and this continually awakens his feelings "-Coleridge, Lecture on Poetry, 12 December 1811. Blackmore went on to say that "more than any poet in recent times Laura Riding conceived of her poems as a whole work, a universe."2 And so, too, do I in relation to what has become a vast corpus, a very large personal oeuvre. There are many aspects of Riding's philosophy of poetry, her view of writing, literature and life that provide parallels with my own way of going about my literary enterprise. It is for this reason that I write this prose-poetic piece.]]>
Part 1: Laura (Riding) Jackson(1901-1991) was an American poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer whom I came to know about in the first years of my retirement after a 50 year student-and-paid-employment life: 1949 to 1999. In 1938 W.H. Auden called her "the only living philosophical poet, and in 1939 another American poet, Robert Fitzgerald, expressed the hope that with the 1938 publication of her Collected Poems, "the authority and the dignity of truth-telling, lost by poetry to science, may gradually be regained."1 For the last two days I have spent many hours reading about this most philosophical of poets who has come onto the radar of many writers and poets since the early 1990s, partly due to the extensive publication of her work which has continued since her death in 1991. I began reading and writing poetry seriously, myself, in the early 1990s. I first heard of Laura Riding back in the 1990s, but time and circumstance, responsibilities and health issues, prevented me from taking a serious look at her life and work. Part 1.1: Jack Blackmore, in a paper given at The Laura (Riding) Jackson Conference in 2010 expressed the view that: "There are affinities between Riding, Coleridge, and William Blake. There is a common optimism and conviction: that ones self, one self, through the most intense scrutiny of and engagement with language and life, can take the measure of the universe."2 Blackmore included the following quotation from Coleridge to support that poet's affinity with Riding: "The Poet is not only the man who is made to solve the riddle of the Universe, but he is also the man who feels where it is not solved and this continually awakens his feelings "-Coleridge, Lecture on Poetry, 12 December 1811. Blackmore went on to say that "more than any poet in recent times Laura Riding conceived of her poems as a whole work, a universe."2 And so, too, do I in relation to what has become a vast corpus, a very large personal oeuvre. There are many aspects of Riding's philosophy of poetry, her view of writing, literature and life that provide parallels with my own way of going about my literary enterprise. It is for this reason that I write this prose-poetic piece.]]> Tue, 17 Feb 2015 20:08:24 GMT /slideshow/laura-riding/44810698 RonPrice@slideshare.net(RonPrice) Laura Riding RonPrice Part 1: Laura (Riding) Jackson(1901-1991) was an American poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer whom I came to know about in the first years of my retirement after a 50 year student-and-paid-employment life: 1949 to 1999. In 1938 W.H. Auden called her "the only living philosophical poet, and in 1939 another American poet, Robert Fitzgerald, expressed the hope that with the 1938 publication of her Collected Poems, "the authority and the dignity of truth-telling, lost by poetry to science, may gradually be regained."1 For the last two days I have spent many hours reading about this most philosophical of poets who has come onto the radar of many writers and poets since the early 1990s, partly due to the extensive publication of her work which has continued since her death in 1991. I began reading and writing poetry seriously, myself, in the early 1990s. I first heard of Laura Riding back in the 1990s, but time and circumstance, responsibilities and health issues, prevented me from taking a serious look at her life and work. Part 1.1: Jack Blackmore, in a paper given at The Laura (Riding) Jackson Conference in 2010 expressed the view that: "There are affinities between Riding, Coleridge, and William Blake. There is a common optimism and conviction: that ones self, one self, through the most intense scrutiny of and engagement with language and life, can take the measure of the universe."2 Blackmore included the following quotation from Coleridge to support that poet's affinity with Riding: "The Poet is not only the man who is made to solve the riddle of the Universe, but he is also the man who feels where it is not solved and this continually awakens his feelings "-Coleridge, Lecture on Poetry, 12 December 1811. Blackmore went on to say that "more than any poet in recent times Laura Riding conceived of her poems as a whole work, a universe."2 And so, too, do I in relation to what has become a vast corpus, a very large personal oeuvre. There are many aspects of Riding's philosophy of poetry, her view of writing, literature and life that provide parallels with my own way of going about my literary enterprise. It is for this reason that I write this prose-poetic piece. <img style="border:1px solid #C3E6D8;float:right;" alt="" src="https://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/ss_thumbnails/laurariding-150217200824-conversion-gate01-thumbnail.jpg?width=120&amp;height=120&amp;fit=bounds" /><br> Part 1: Laura (Riding) Jackson(1901-1991) was an American poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer whom I came to know about in the first years of my retirement after a 50 year student-and-paid-employment life: 1949 to 1999. In 1938 W.H. Auden called her &quot;the only living philosophical poet, and in 1939 another American poet, Robert Fitzgerald, expressed the hope that with the 1938 publication of her Collected Poems, &quot;the authority and the dignity of truth-telling, lost by poetry to science, may gradually be regained.&quot;1 For the last two days I have spent many hours reading about this most philosophical of poets who has come onto the radar of many writers and poets since the early 1990s, partly due to the extensive publication of her work which has continued since her death in 1991. I began reading and writing poetry seriously, myself, in the early 1990s. I first heard of Laura Riding back in the 1990s, but time and circumstance, responsibilities and health issues, prevented me from taking a serious look at her life and work. Part 1.1: Jack Blackmore, in a paper given at The Laura (Riding) Jackson Conference in 2010 expressed the view that: &quot;There are affinities between Riding, Coleridge, and William Blake. There is a common optimism and conviction: that ones self, one self, through the most intense scrutiny of and engagement with language and life, can take the measure of the universe.&quot;2 Blackmore included the following quotation from Coleridge to support that poet&#39;s affinity with Riding: &quot;The Poet is not only the man who is made to solve the riddle of the Universe, but he is also the man who feels where it is not solved and this continually awakens his feelings &quot;-Coleridge, Lecture on Poetry, 12 December 1811. Blackmore went on to say that &quot;more than any poet in recent times Laura Riding conceived of her poems as a whole work, a universe.&quot;2 And so, too, do I in relation to what has become a vast corpus, a very large personal oeuvre. There are many aspects of Riding&#39;s philosophy of poetry, her view of writing, literature and life that provide parallels with my own way of going about my literary enterprise. It is for this reason that I write this prose-poetic piece.
Laura Riding from Ron Price
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Part 1: Analyze This is a 1999 gangster comedy film directed by Harold Ramis. He co-wrote the screenplay with playwright Kenneth Lonergan and Peter Tolan. The film starred Robert De Niro as a mafioso and Billy Crystal as his psychiatrist. A sequel, Analyze That, was released in 2002. I had the pleasure of watching these two comedy films about a mafia mobster who has a psychotic-break while in prison and several panic attacks outside prison. It was more than a dozen years, though, after these films were released before I watched them. That is the pattern now in the evening of my life. I have not been to the cinema in all the years of my retirement from paid-employment since back in 1999 when I lived in Western Australia. I wait, and eventually I can watch the movie on television. Initially there was no plan to create a sequel to Analyze This, but the positive reaction generated by the first film encouraged the producers to consider a sequel and discuss it with the studio and actors. They believed, as Crystal put it, that: "There was an unfinished relationship between Ben Sobel and Paul Vitti, the psychiatrist and the mobster, from the first film" and "there was a good story to tell", so the sequel was commissioned. I leave it to readers with the interest to Google the story, the plot and the characters, the production and background details, the box office and reception/ratings the films received, the money which the films grossed, and all the who's whos. Part 2: "Freud has never been more relevant," said David Cronenberg(1943- ) recently. Cronenberg is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. "Because of Freud's understanding of what human beings are, and his insistence on the reality of the human body. We do not escape from that. Jung went into a kind of Aryan mysticism, whereas Freud was insisting on humans as we really are, not as we might want to be."2 Cronenberg points out in relation to some of his more extreme depictions of violence and sex, mental health issues and criminality that: "Different countries have different reactions to my depictions of somewhat extreme situations and topics..2 Some films are successful in some places; some not. What will play in Glasgow for three years non-stop will be taken off the air in a dozen or more Middle Eastern countries.......I'm interested in people who don't accept the official version of reality, but try to find out what's really going on under the hood."-Ron Price with thanks to 1Wikipedia, 7/2/'15; & 2Steve Rose, "David Cronenberg: Analyse this," The Guardian, 6 February 2012. ]]>
Part 1: Analyze This is a 1999 gangster comedy film directed by Harold Ramis. He co-wrote the screenplay with playwright Kenneth Lonergan and Peter Tolan. The film starred Robert De Niro as a mafioso and Billy Crystal as his psychiatrist. A sequel, Analyze That, was released in 2002. I had the pleasure of watching these two comedy films about a mafia mobster who has a psychotic-break while in prison and several panic attacks outside prison. It was more than a dozen years, though, after these films were released before I watched them. That is the pattern now in the evening of my life. I have not been to the cinema in all the years of my retirement from paid-employment since back in 1999 when I lived in Western Australia. I wait, and eventually I can watch the movie on television. Initially there was no plan to create a sequel to Analyze This, but the positive reaction generated by the first film encouraged the producers to consider a sequel and discuss it with the studio and actors. They believed, as Crystal put it, that: "There was an unfinished relationship between Ben Sobel and Paul Vitti, the psychiatrist and the mobster, from the first film" and "there was a good story to tell", so the sequel was commissioned. I leave it to readers with the interest to Google the story, the plot and the characters, the production and background details, the box office and reception/ratings the films received, the money which the films grossed, and all the who's whos. Part 2: "Freud has never been more relevant," said David Cronenberg(1943- ) recently. Cronenberg is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. "Because of Freud's understanding of what human beings are, and his insistence on the reality of the human body. We do not escape from that. Jung went into a kind of Aryan mysticism, whereas Freud was insisting on humans as we really are, not as we might want to be."2 Cronenberg points out in relation to some of his more extreme depictions of violence and sex, mental health issues and criminality that: "Different countries have different reactions to my depictions of somewhat extreme situations and topics..2 Some films are successful in some places; some not. What will play in Glasgow for three years non-stop will be taken off the air in a dozen or more Middle Eastern countries.......I'm interested in people who don't accept the official version of reality, but try to find out what's really going on under the hood."-Ron Price with thanks to 1Wikipedia, 7/2/'15; & 2Steve Rose, "David Cronenberg: Analyse this," The Guardian, 6 February 2012. ]]> Tue, 17 Feb 2015 19:03:24 GMT /slideshow/when-a-psychosis-is-funny/44809274 RonPrice@slideshare.net(RonPrice) WHEN A PSYCHOSIS IS FUNNY ...and when mental illness is stigmatized RonPrice Part 1: Analyze This is a 1999 gangster comedy film directed by Harold Ramis. He co-wrote the screenplay with playwright Kenneth Lonergan and Peter Tolan. The film starred Robert De Niro as a mafioso and Billy Crystal as his psychiatrist. A sequel, Analyze That, was released in 2002. I had the pleasure of watching these two comedy films about a mafia mobster who has a psychotic-break while in prison and several panic attacks outside prison. It was more than a dozen years, though, after these films were released before I watched them. That is the pattern now in the evening of my life. I have not been to the cinema in all the years of my retirement from paid-employment since back in 1999 when I lived in Western Australia. I wait, and eventually I can watch the movie on television. Initially there was no plan to create a sequel to Analyze This, but the positive reaction generated by the first film encouraged the producers to consider a sequel and discuss it with the studio and actors. They believed, as Crystal put it, that: "There was an unfinished relationship between Ben Sobel and Paul Vitti, the psychiatrist and the mobster, from the first film" and "there was a good story to tell", so the sequel was commissioned. I leave it to readers with the interest to Google the story, the plot and the characters, the production and background details, the box office and reception/ratings the films received, the money which the films grossed, and all the who's whos. Part 2: "Freud has never been more relevant," said David Cronenberg(1943- ) recently. Cronenberg is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. "Because of Freud's understanding of what human beings are, and his insistence on the reality of the human body. We do not escape from that. Jung went into a kind of Aryan mysticism, whereas Freud was insisting on humans as we really are, not as we might want to be."2 Cronenberg points out in relation to some of his more extreme depictions of violence and sex, mental health issues and criminality that: "Different countries have different reactions to my depictions of somewhat extreme situations and topics..2 Some films are successful in some places; some not. What will play in Glasgow for three years non-stop will be taken off the air in a dozen or more Middle Eastern countries.......I'm interested in people who don't accept the official version of reality, but try to find out what's really going on under the hood."-Ron Price with thanks to 1Wikipedia, 7/2/'15; & 2Steve Rose, "David Cronenberg: Analyse this," The Guardian, 6 February 2012. <img style="border:1px solid #C3E6D8;float:right;" alt="" src="https://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/ss_thumbnails/whenapsychosisisfunny-150217190325-conversion-gate02-thumbnail.jpg?width=120&amp;height=120&amp;fit=bounds" /><br> Part 1: Analyze This is a 1999 gangster comedy film directed by Harold Ramis. He co-wrote the screenplay with playwright Kenneth Lonergan and Peter Tolan. The film starred Robert De Niro as a mafioso and Billy Crystal as his psychiatrist. A sequel, Analyze That, was released in 2002. I had the pleasure of watching these two comedy films about a mafia mobster who has a psychotic-break while in prison and several panic attacks outside prison. It was more than a dozen years, though, after these films were released before I watched them. That is the pattern now in the evening of my life. I have not been to the cinema in all the years of my retirement from paid-employment since back in 1999 when I lived in Western Australia. I wait, and eventually I can watch the movie on television. Initially there was no plan to create a sequel to Analyze This, but the positive reaction generated by the first film encouraged the producers to consider a sequel and discuss it with the studio and actors. They believed, as Crystal put it, that: &quot;There was an unfinished relationship between Ben Sobel and Paul Vitti, the psychiatrist and the mobster, from the first film&quot; and &quot;there was a good story to tell&quot;, so the sequel was commissioned. I leave it to readers with the interest to Google the story, the plot and the characters, the production and background details, the box office and reception/ratings the films received, the money which the films grossed, and all the who&#39;s whos. Part 2: &quot;Freud has never been more relevant,&quot; said David Cronenberg(1943- ) recently. Cronenberg is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. &quot;Because of Freud&#39;s understanding of what human beings are, and his insistence on the reality of the human body. We do not escape from that. Jung went into a kind of Aryan mysticism, whereas Freud was insisting on humans as we really are, not as we might want to be.&quot;2 Cronenberg points out in relation to some of his more extreme depictions of violence and sex, mental health issues and criminality that: &quot;Different countries have different reactions to my depictions of somewhat extreme situations and topics..2 Some films are successful in some places; some not. What will play in Glasgow for three years non-stop will be taken off the air in a dozen or more Middle Eastern countries.......I&#39;m interested in people who don&#39;t accept the official version of reality, but try to find out what&#39;s really going on under the hood.&quot;-Ron Price with thanks to 1Wikipedia, 7/2/&#39;15; &amp; 2Steve Rose, &quot;David Cronenberg: Analyse this,&quot; The Guardian, 6 February 2012.
WHEN A PSYCHOSIS IS FUNNY ...and when mental illness is stigmatized from Ron Price
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Integrated Resumes-for secular (1) from Ron Price
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Stephen Burt, a poet and Harvard professor of English, has compared the now famous poet John Ashbery(1927- ) to T. S. Eliot, calling Ashbery "the last figure whom half the English-language poets alive thought a great model, and the other half thought incomprehensible." Ashbery's ncreasing critical recognition by the 1970s transformed him from an obscure avant-garde experimentalist into one of America's most important poets, though still one of its most controversial. I am in the group who has always and at least, thusfar, found him incomprehensible. He and his work intrigue me more and more since I first came across him while teaching English Literature in the 1990s to matriculation students in Perth Western Australia and now, in these years of my retirement from the world of FT, PT and casual-paid employment: 2006 to 2014. The play of the human mind, which is the subject of a great many of his poems, is also the subject of my poems. Ashbery once said that his goal was "to produce a poem that the critic cannot even talk about." I, too, find it difficult to talk about his poetry, but I talk about what others say and have written about his work because I find their talk, their writing, throws light, in an indirect sort of way, on my pieces of poetic-writing.]]>
Stephen Burt, a poet and Harvard professor of English, has compared the now famous poet John Ashbery(1927- ) to T. S. Eliot, calling Ashbery "the last figure whom half the English-language poets alive thought a great model, and the other half thought incomprehensible." Ashbery's ncreasing critical recognition by the 1970s transformed him from an obscure avant-garde experimentalist into one of America's most important poets, though still one of its most controversial. I am in the group who has always and at least, thusfar, found him incomprehensible. He and his work intrigue me more and more since I first came across him while teaching English Literature in the 1990s to matriculation students in Perth Western Australia and now, in these years of my retirement from the world of FT, PT and casual-paid employment: 2006 to 2014. The play of the human mind, which is the subject of a great many of his poems, is also the subject of my poems. Ashbery once said that his goal was "to produce a poem that the critic cannot even talk about." I, too, find it difficult to talk about his poetry, but I talk about what others say and have written about his work because I find their talk, their writing, throws light, in an indirect sort of way, on my pieces of poetic-writing.]]> Fri, 28 Nov 2014 21:49:06 GMT /slideshow/john-ashbery-some-personal-reflections/42148544 RonPrice@slideshare.net(RonPrice) John Ashbery: Some Personal Reflections RonPrice Stephen Burt, a poet and Harvard professor of English, has compared the now famous poet John Ashbery(1927- ) to T. S. Eliot, calling Ashbery "the last figure whom half the English-language poets alive thought a great model, and the other half thought incomprehensible." Ashbery's ncreasing critical recognition by the 1970s transformed him from an obscure avant-garde experimentalist into one of America's most important poets, though still one of its most controversial. I am in the group who has always and at least, thusfar, found him incomprehensible. He and his work intrigue me more and more since I first came across him while teaching English Literature in the 1990s to matriculation students in Perth Western Australia and now, in these years of my retirement from the world of FT, PT and casual-paid employment: 2006 to 2014. The play of the human mind, which is the subject of a great many of his poems, is also the subject of my poems. Ashbery once said that his goal was "to produce a poem that the critic cannot even talk about." I, too, find it difficult to talk about his poetry, but I talk about what others say and have written about his work because I find their talk, their writing, throws light, in an indirect sort of way, on my pieces of poetic-writing. <img style="border:1px solid #C3E6D8;float:right;" alt="" src="https://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/ss_thumbnails/johnashbery-141128214906-conversion-gate02-thumbnail.jpg?width=120&amp;height=120&amp;fit=bounds" /><br> Stephen Burt, a poet and Harvard professor of English, has compared the now famous poet John Ashbery(1927- ) to T. S. Eliot, calling Ashbery &quot;the last figure whom half the English-language poets alive thought a great model, and the other half thought incomprehensible.&quot; Ashbery&#39;s ncreasing critical recognition by the 1970s transformed him from an obscure avant-garde experimentalist into one of America&#39;s most important poets, though still one of its most controversial. I am in the group who has always and at least, thusfar, found him incomprehensible. He and his work intrigue me more and more since I first came across him while teaching English Literature in the 1990s to matriculation students in Perth Western Australia and now, in these years of my retirement from the world of FT, PT and casual-paid employment: 2006 to 2014. The play of the human mind, which is the subject of a great many of his poems, is also the subject of my poems. Ashbery once said that his goal was &quot;to produce a poem that the critic cannot even talk about.&quot; I, too, find it difficult to talk about his poetry, but I talk about what others say and have written about his work because I find their talk, their writing, throws light, in an indirect sort of way, on my pieces of poetic-writing.
John Ashbery: Some Personal Reflections from Ron Price
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"I remember an old girlfriend of Ian Fleming's saying: Ian was like one of the characters in the plays of that major 19th-century Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen; that character was always waiting for something wunderbar to happen to him. Readers will find this remark in John Pearson's 500 page biography The Life of Ian Fleming. "I think The Bond Books function as the dream autobiography of this man," writes Pearson. There have already been several stabs at dramatising this famous writers life, including two television films from 1989 and 1990, the first starring Charles Dance, the second Jason Connery. But Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond, a co-production between Sky-Atlantic and BBC America, is the most opulent yet.1 Sky Atlantic is a television channel owned by British Sky Broadcasting. This channel was launched on 1 February 2011 on Sky in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It is this docudrama that I have just enjoyed involving, as it does, a look at the life of Ian Fleming from when he was in the UK's naval intelligence as a commander until his death in 1964. It gives an insight into what Fleming was really like, and how he came to write his Bond novels. I watched the two episodes in the first 10 days of November 2014.2]]>
"I remember an old girlfriend of Ian Fleming's saying: Ian was like one of the characters in the plays of that major 19th-century Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen; that character was always waiting for something wunderbar to happen to him. Readers will find this remark in John Pearson's 500 page biography The Life of Ian Fleming. "I think The Bond Books function as the dream autobiography of this man," writes Pearson. There have already been several stabs at dramatising this famous writers life, including two television films from 1989 and 1990, the first starring Charles Dance, the second Jason Connery. But Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond, a co-production between Sky-Atlantic and BBC America, is the most opulent yet.1 Sky Atlantic is a television channel owned by British Sky Broadcasting. This channel was launched on 1 February 2011 on Sky in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It is this docudrama that I have just enjoyed involving, as it does, a look at the life of Ian Fleming from when he was in the UK's naval intelligence as a commander until his death in 1964. It gives an insight into what Fleming was really like, and how he came to write his Bond novels. I watched the two episodes in the first 10 days of November 2014.2]]> Tue, 04 Nov 2014 18:13:38 GMT /slideshow/ian-flleming/41130201 RonPrice@slideshare.net(RonPrice) Ian Fleming: A Personal Retrospective RonPrice "I remember an old girlfriend of Ian Fleming's saying: Ian was like one of the characters in the plays of that major 19th-century Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen; that character was always waiting for something wunderbar to happen to him. Readers will find this remark in John Pearson's 500 page biography The Life of Ian Fleming. "I think The Bond Books function as the dream autobiography of this man," writes Pearson. There have already been several stabs at dramatising this famous writers life, including two television films from 1989 and 1990, the first starring Charles Dance, the second Jason Connery. But Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond, a co-production between Sky-Atlantic and BBC America, is the most opulent yet.1 Sky Atlantic is a television channel owned by British Sky Broadcasting. This channel was launched on 1 February 2011 on Sky in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It is this docudrama that I have just enjoyed involving, as it does, a look at the life of Ian Fleming from when he was in the UK's naval intelligence as a commander until his death in 1964. It gives an insight into what Fleming was really like, and how he came to write his Bond novels. I watched the two episodes in the first 10 days of November 2014.2 <img style="border:1px solid #C3E6D8;float:right;" alt="" src="https://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/ss_thumbnails/ianfleming-141104181339-conversion-gate02-thumbnail.jpg?width=120&amp;height=120&amp;fit=bounds" /><br> &quot;I remember an old girlfriend of Ian Fleming&#39;s saying: Ian was like one of the characters in the plays of that major 19th-century Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen; that character was always waiting for something wunderbar to happen to him. Readers will find this remark in John Pearson&#39;s 500 page biography The Life of Ian Fleming. &quot;I think The Bond Books function as the dream autobiography of this man,&quot; writes Pearson. There have already been several stabs at dramatising this famous writers life, including two television films from 1989 and 1990, the first starring Charles Dance, the second Jason Connery. But Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond, a co-production between Sky-Atlantic and BBC America, is the most opulent yet.1 Sky Atlantic is a television channel owned by British Sky Broadcasting. This channel was launched on 1 February 2011 on Sky in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It is this docudrama that I have just enjoyed involving, as it does, a look at the life of Ian Fleming from when he was in the UK&#39;s naval intelligence as a commander until his death in 1964. It gives an insight into what Fleming was really like, and how he came to write his Bond novels. I watched the two episodes in the first 10 days of November 2014.2
Ian Fleming: A Personal Retrospective from Ron Price
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When one writes about politics, the people and the events, the ideas and the issues, one does not have to engage in the partisan variety which divides the nation and individuals from each other and engages millions in hair-splitting discussions on topics about which they usually or, at least, often know very little. Often the opinions are endless, opinions which get dropped-about now in cyberspace's social media and elsewhere, and in real space. I have studied politics and taught it from grade 10 when I was 15 to these years of my retirement more than half a century later. I am now 70. My parents had political meetings in our home back in the early to mid-1950s. It was in those early, those embryonic, years when I was inoculated against partisan-party politics. That in-house political discussion was characterized by endless hair-splitting and personality clashes in what were my pre-puberal years, and the scene has changed little in those several decades.]]>
When one writes about politics, the people and the events, the ideas and the issues, one does not have to engage in the partisan variety which divides the nation and individuals from each other and engages millions in hair-splitting discussions on topics about which they usually or, at least, often know very little. Often the opinions are endless, opinions which get dropped-about now in cyberspace's social media and elsewhere, and in real space. I have studied politics and taught it from grade 10 when I was 15 to these years of my retirement more than half a century later. I am now 70. My parents had political meetings in our home back in the early to mid-1950s. It was in those early, those embryonic, years when I was inoculated against partisan-party politics. That in-house political discussion was characterized by endless hair-splitting and personality clashes in what were my pre-puberal years, and the scene has changed little in those several decades.]]> Fri, 24 Oct 2014 19:18:25 GMT /slideshow/whitlam-and-wit/40700935 RonPrice@slideshare.net(RonPrice) Whitlam and Wit RonPrice When one writes about politics, the people and the events, the ideas and the issues, one does not have to engage in the partisan variety which divides the nation and individuals from each other and engages millions in hair-splitting discussions on topics about which they usually or, at least, often know very little. Often the opinions are endless, opinions which get dropped-about now in cyberspace's social media and elsewhere, and in real space. I have studied politics and taught it from grade 10 when I was 15 to these years of my retirement more than half a century later. I am now 70. My parents had political meetings in our home back in the early to mid-1950s. It was in those early, those embryonic, years when I was inoculated against partisan-party politics. That in-house political discussion was characterized by endless hair-splitting and personality clashes in what were my pre-puberal years, and the scene has changed little in those several decades. <img style="border:1px solid #C3E6D8;float:right;" alt="" src="https://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/ss_thumbnails/whitlamandwit-141024191825-conversion-gate02-thumbnail.jpg?width=120&amp;height=120&amp;fit=bounds" /><br> When one writes about politics, the people and the events, the ideas and the issues, one does not have to engage in the partisan variety which divides the nation and individuals from each other and engages millions in hair-splitting discussions on topics about which they usually or, at least, often know very little. Often the opinions are endless, opinions which get dropped-about now in cyberspace&#39;s social media and elsewhere, and in real space. I have studied politics and taught it from grade 10 when I was 15 to these years of my retirement more than half a century later. I am now 70. My parents had political meetings in our home back in the early to mid-1950s. It was in those early, those embryonic, years when I was inoculated against partisan-party politics. That in-house political discussion was characterized by endless hair-splitting and personality clashes in what were my pre-puberal years, and the scene has changed little in those several decades.
Whitlam and Wit from Ron Price
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Mr. Kazan's first novel in 1962, America America, retraced the odyssey of an uncle, a Greek youth, who fled the poverty and persecution of Turkey and reached America despite numbing setbacks. The book was a best seller, and Bosley Crowther of The Times called Mr. Kazan's movie version one of the 10 best films of 1963. Kazan, by 1963, was a famous film and theatre director, but most people then and now do not know the names of film directors. In 2003 Elia Kazan died at the age of 94. He was an influential director in film and theatre1 even if not that well known in the world of popular culture. Back in 1962 my own odyssey had just begun both in the Canadian Baha'i community, and in the community of higher education. I have remained in both these communities, in a wide variety of ways, for the rest of my life although, for the most part, in Australia after a brief decade in Canada.]]>
Mr. Kazan's first novel in 1962, America America, retraced the odyssey of an uncle, a Greek youth, who fled the poverty and persecution of Turkey and reached America despite numbing setbacks. The book was a best seller, and Bosley Crowther of The Times called Mr. Kazan's movie version one of the 10 best films of 1963. Kazan, by 1963, was a famous film and theatre director, but most people then and now do not know the names of film directors. In 2003 Elia Kazan died at the age of 94. He was an influential director in film and theatre1 even if not that well known in the world of popular culture. Back in 1962 my own odyssey had just begun both in the Canadian Baha'i community, and in the community of higher education. I have remained in both these communities, in a wide variety of ways, for the rest of my life although, for the most part, in Australia after a brief decade in Canada.]]> Sun, 19 Oct 2014 21:30:48 GMT /slideshow/elia-kazan/40468665 RonPrice@slideshare.net(RonPrice) Elia Kazan: From the Periphery to the Centre RonPrice Mr. Kazan's first novel in 1962, America America, retraced the odyssey of an uncle, a Greek youth, who fled the poverty and persecution of Turkey and reached America despite numbing setbacks. The book was a best seller, and Bosley Crowther of The Times called Mr. Kazan's movie version one of the 10 best films of 1963. Kazan, by 1963, was a famous film and theatre director, but most people then and now do not know the names of film directors. In 2003 Elia Kazan died at the age of 94. He was an influential director in film and theatre1 even if not that well known in the world of popular culture. Back in 1962 my own odyssey had just begun both in the Canadian Baha'i community, and in the community of higher education. I have remained in both these communities, in a wide variety of ways, for the rest of my life although, for the most part, in Australia after a brief decade in Canada. <img style="border:1px solid #C3E6D8;float:right;" alt="" src="https://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/ss_thumbnails/eliakazan-141019213048-conversion-gate01-thumbnail.jpg?width=120&amp;height=120&amp;fit=bounds" /><br> Mr. Kazan&#39;s first novel in 1962, America America, retraced the odyssey of an uncle, a Greek youth, who fled the poverty and persecution of Turkey and reached America despite numbing setbacks. The book was a best seller, and Bosley Crowther of The Times called Mr. Kazan&#39;s movie version one of the 10 best films of 1963. Kazan, by 1963, was a famous film and theatre director, but most people then and now do not know the names of film directors. In 2003 Elia Kazan died at the age of 94. He was an influential director in film and theatre1 even if not that well known in the world of popular culture. Back in 1962 my own odyssey had just begun both in the Canadian Baha&#39;i community, and in the community of higher education. I have remained in both these communities, in a wide variety of ways, for the rest of my life although, for the most part, in Australia after a brief decade in Canada.
Elia Kazan: From the Periphery to the Centre from Ron Price
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I think theres something about a character in movies or in books facing the huge problems and challenges of life in the contemporary world, or at some time in history, and meeting these issues head-on with courage. The character must allow for darkness and mistakes and, if there is ultimately a morality in the plot, then there is an added spice of inspiration for the reader or viewer.1 The Bourne Identity, which I watched last night at the end of the second week of the autumn season in Tasmania sometime in the evening of my life, had all of these ingredients. At least they existed for me.]]>
I think theres something about a character in movies or in books facing the huge problems and challenges of life in the contemporary world, or at some time in history, and meeting these issues head-on with courage. The character must allow for darkness and mistakes and, if there is ultimately a morality in the plot, then there is an added spice of inspiration for the reader or viewer.1 The Bourne Identity, which I watched last night at the end of the second week of the autumn season in Tasmania sometime in the evening of my life, had all of these ingredients. At least they existed for me.]]> Sat, 04 Oct 2014 06:35:54 GMT /slideshow/identity-39868274/39868274 RonPrice@slideshare.net(RonPrice) Identity RonPrice I think theres something about a character in movies or in books facing the huge problems and challenges of life in the contemporary world, or at some time in history, and meeting these issues head-on with courage. The character must allow for darkness and mistakes and, if there is ultimately a morality in the plot, then there is an added spice of inspiration for the reader or viewer.1 The Bourne Identity, which I watched last night at the end of the second week of the autumn season in Tasmania sometime in the evening of my life, had all of these ingredients. At least they existed for me. <img style="border:1px solid #C3E6D8;float:right;" alt="" src="https://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/ss_thumbnails/identity-141004063554-conversion-gate01-thumbnail.jpg?width=120&amp;height=120&amp;fit=bounds" /><br> I think theres something about a character in movies or in books facing the huge problems and challenges of life in the contemporary world, or at some time in history, and meeting these issues head-on with courage. The character must allow for darkness and mistakes and, if there is ultimately a morality in the plot, then there is an added spice of inspiration for the reader or viewer.1 The Bourne Identity, which I watched last night at the end of the second week of the autumn season in Tasmania sometime in the evening of my life, had all of these ingredients. At least they existed for me.
Identity from Ron Price
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This is the fifth interview in fifteen months. It is also the fifth interview in a series of 26 interviews from 1996 to 2014. This particular interview resulted from my reading of a series of interviews with the American playwright Edward Albee(1928- ). His works are considered well-crafted, often unsympathetic, examinations of the modern condition. His early works reflect a mastery and Americanization of the Theater of the Absurd that found its peak in works by European playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Eug竪ne Ionesco, and Jean Genet. The interviews with Albee were held over the twenty-five year period 1961 to 1987 and published in the book Conversations With Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin(University of Mississippi Press, London,1988). I regard these days as historic ones in many ways. they are also days of infinite preciousness in the brief span of time before the end of the century, days of urgent and inescapable responsibility as I strive toward what I like to think is my God-promised destiny.(1) I am living in the midst of a spiritual drama that has provided some of the motivational matrix for the comments that follow. The first question in this interview, this simulated interview is: "Are you conscious of influences on your poetry?" (1)--Universal House of Justice, Ridvan Message, 1997. ]]>
This is the fifth interview in fifteen months. It is also the fifth interview in a series of 26 interviews from 1996 to 2014. This particular interview resulted from my reading of a series of interviews with the American playwright Edward Albee(1928- ). His works are considered well-crafted, often unsympathetic, examinations of the modern condition. His early works reflect a mastery and Americanization of the Theater of the Absurd that found its peak in works by European playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Eug竪ne Ionesco, and Jean Genet. The interviews with Albee were held over the twenty-five year period 1961 to 1987 and published in the book Conversations With Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin(University of Mississippi Press, London,1988). I regard these days as historic ones in many ways. they are also days of infinite preciousness in the brief span of time before the end of the century, days of urgent and inescapable responsibility as I strive toward what I like to think is my God-promised destiny.(1) I am living in the midst of a spiritual drama that has provided some of the motivational matrix for the comments that follow. The first question in this interview, this simulated interview is: "Are you conscious of influences on your poetry?" (1)--Universal House of Justice, Ridvan Message, 1997. ]]> Tue, 09 Sep 2014 19:58:18 GMT /slideshow/one-of-ron-prices-26-interviews/38897516 RonPrice@slideshare.net(RonPrice) One of 26 Interviews with Writer and Author Ron Price RonPrice This is the fifth interview in fifteen months. It is also the fifth interview in a series of 26 interviews from 1996 to 2014. This particular interview resulted from my reading of a series of interviews with the American playwright Edward Albee(1928- ). His works are considered well-crafted, often unsympathetic, examinations of the modern condition. His early works reflect a mastery and Americanization of the Theater of the Absurd that found its peak in works by European playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Eug竪ne Ionesco, and Jean Genet. The interviews with Albee were held over the twenty-five year period 1961 to 1987 and published in the book Conversations With Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin(University of Mississippi Press, London,1988). I regard these days as historic ones in many ways. they are also days of infinite preciousness in the brief span of time before the end of the century, days of urgent and inescapable responsibility as I strive toward what I like to think is my God-promised destiny.(1) I am living in the midst of a spiritual drama that has provided some of the motivational matrix for the comments that follow. The first question in this interview, this simulated interview is: "Are you conscious of influences on your poetry?" (1)--Universal House of Justice, Ridvan Message, 1997. <img style="border:1px solid #C3E6D8;float:right;" alt="" src="https://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/ss_thumbnails/interview5-4000-140909195818-phpapp02-thumbnail.jpg?width=120&amp;height=120&amp;fit=bounds" /><br> This is the fifth interview in fifteen months. It is also the fifth interview in a series of 26 interviews from 1996 to 2014. This particular interview resulted from my reading of a series of interviews with the American playwright Edward Albee(1928- ). His works are considered well-crafted, often unsympathetic, examinations of the modern condition. His early works reflect a mastery and Americanization of the Theater of the Absurd that found its peak in works by European playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Eug竪ne Ionesco, and Jean Genet. The interviews with Albee were held over the twenty-five year period 1961 to 1987 and published in the book Conversations With Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin(University of Mississippi Press, London,1988). I regard these days as historic ones in many ways. they are also days of infinite preciousness in the brief span of time before the end of the century, days of urgent and inescapable responsibility as I strive toward what I like to think is my God-promised destiny.(1) I am living in the midst of a spiritual drama that has provided some of the motivational matrix for the comments that follow. The first question in this interview, this simulated interview is: &quot;Are you conscious of influences on your poetry?&quot; (1)--Universal House of Justice, Ridvan Message, 1997.
One of 26 Interviews with Writer and Author Ron Price from Ron Price
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PYNCHON AND I ...meeting our match in cyberspace Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr.(8 May 1937) was born the very week, the very month, that the North American Baha'is were putting into place their first organized and systematic teaching Plan-1937-1944-for the extension & consolidation of the Baha'i community in the western hemisphere.Pynchon is an American novelist, a MacArthur Fellow, a polymath, a workaholic, some say a genius. He is noted for his dense and complex novels. ]]>
PYNCHON AND I ...meeting our match in cyberspace Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr.(8 May 1937) was born the very week, the very month, that the North American Baha'is were putting into place their first organized and systematic teaching Plan-1937-1944-for the extension & consolidation of the Baha'i community in the western hemisphere.Pynchon is an American novelist, a MacArthur Fellow, a polymath, a workaholic, some say a genius. He is noted for his dense and complex novels. ]]> Tue, 02 Sep 2014 19:14:56 GMT /slideshow/pynchon/38623277 RonPrice@slideshare.net(RonPrice) PYNCHON AND I RonPrice PYNCHON AND I ...meeting our match in cyberspace Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr.(8 May 1937) was born the very week, the very month, that the North American Baha'is were putting into place their first organized and systematic teaching Plan-1937-1944-for the extension & consolidation of the Baha'i community in the western hemisphere.Pynchon is an American novelist, a MacArthur Fellow, a polymath, a workaholic, some say a genius. He is noted for his dense and complex novels. <img style="border:1px solid #C3E6D8;float:right;" alt="" src="https://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/ss_thumbnails/pynchon-140902191456-phpapp02-thumbnail.jpg?width=120&amp;height=120&amp;fit=bounds" /><br> PYNCHON AND I ...meeting our match in cyberspace Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr.(8 May 1937) was born the very week, the very month, that the North American Baha&#39;is were putting into place their first organized and systematic teaching Plan-1937-1944-for the extension &amp; consolidation of the Baha&#39;i community in the western hemisphere.Pynchon is an American novelist, a MacArthur Fellow, a polymath, a workaholic, some say a genius. He is noted for his dense and complex novels.
PYNCHON AND I from Ron Price
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During my years as a teacher and tutor, lecturer and adult educator, 1967 to 2005, I used various television documentaries. The doco I used more than any other was Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark, a documentary series outlining the history of Western art, architecture and philosophy since the Dark Ages. The series was produced by the BBC and aired in 1969 on BBC2.2 ]]>
During my years as a teacher and tutor, lecturer and adult educator, 1967 to 2005, I used various television documentaries. The doco I used more than any other was Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark, a documentary series outlining the history of Western art, architecture and philosophy since the Dark Ages. The series was produced by the BBC and aired in 1969 on BBC2.2 ]]> Tue, 26 Aug 2014 19:36:58 GMT /slideshow/ways-of-seeing-38390008/38390008 RonPrice@slideshare.net(RonPrice) WAYS OF SEEING RonPrice During my years as a teacher and tutor, lecturer and adult educator, 1967 to 2005, I used various television documentaries. The doco I used more than any other was Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark, a documentary series outlining the history of Western art, architecture and philosophy since the Dark Ages. The series was produced by the BBC and aired in 1969 on BBC2.2 <img style="border:1px solid #C3E6D8;float:right;" alt="" src="https://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/ss_thumbnails/waysofseeing-140826193658-phpapp01-thumbnail.jpg?width=120&amp;height=120&amp;fit=bounds" /><br> During my years as a teacher and tutor, lecturer and adult educator, 1967 to 2005, I used various television documentaries. The doco I used more than any other was Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark, a documentary series outlining the history of Western art, architecture and philosophy since the Dark Ages. The series was produced by the BBC and aired in 1969 on BBC2.2
WAYS OF SEEING from Ron Price
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From time to time in these years of my retirement from half a century of a student-and-employment life, 1949 to 1999 and, in this case, in the last three weeks before I enter my 70s, I have taken an interest in some particular writer or poet, philosopher or historian, psychologist or sociologist, among other specialists in some discipline of learning. Usually I remember what led to this interest; sometimes I don't. In this case I remember coming across a review by that fine Australian essayist, Clive James, of a new volume of letters by Robert Forst.1 This led to my bringing together several pieces of my prose and poetry written during these my retirement years, 1999 to 2014, on the subject of Robert Frost. While gathering together these several pages of writing, my interest in Frost's reasons for writing poetry were piqued.-Ron Price with thanks to 1 Clive James, "The Sound of Sense: Clive James on Robert Frost," Prospect, 23/1/'14, on 4/7/'14. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- LIKE ROBERT FROST Part 1: Like Robert Frosts writing of poetry it was instinct that kept me going in the direction I took in the 1990s, and in the direction I also took in the 21st century. An inner feeling, an intuition, a combination of sense experience, my use of the rational faculty, and many decades of experience told me I was doing the right thing.1 Like Frost, I did not expect to have my poetry recognized although, after the first 25 years of my poetic production--say, 1980 to 2005-- I began to hope for, if not expect, recognition. Now, in 2014, after nearly 25 years of extensive writing under my literary belt, and nearly 35 years of occasional work, to say nothing about the more than 3 decades before that of what you might call 'my lifespan warm-up', I still have not detected any sense of significant enthusiasm for my poems. There has been one individual exception, the editor of Kalimat Press, Anthony Lee, who offered back in 1999 to make a chapbook of my poems. There is also the surprising fact that, as a result of my efforts to promote, to publicize, my writing in cyberspace I now have millions of readers. ]]>
From time to time in these years of my retirement from half a century of a student-and-employment life, 1949 to 1999 and, in this case, in the last three weeks before I enter my 70s, I have taken an interest in some particular writer or poet, philosopher or historian, psychologist or sociologist, among other specialists in some discipline of learning. Usually I remember what led to this interest; sometimes I don't. In this case I remember coming across a review by that fine Australian essayist, Clive James, of a new volume of letters by Robert Forst.1 This led to my bringing together several pieces of my prose and poetry written during these my retirement years, 1999 to 2014, on the subject of Robert Frost. While gathering together these several pages of writing, my interest in Frost's reasons for writing poetry were piqued.-Ron Price with thanks to 1 Clive James, "The Sound of Sense: Clive James on Robert Frost," Prospect, 23/1/'14, on 4/7/'14. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- LIKE ROBERT FROST Part 1: Like Robert Frosts writing of poetry it was instinct that kept me going in the direction I took in the 1990s, and in the direction I also took in the 21st century. An inner feeling, an intuition, a combination of sense experience, my use of the rational faculty, and many decades of experience told me I was doing the right thing.1 Like Frost, I did not expect to have my poetry recognized although, after the first 25 years of my poetic production--say, 1980 to 2005-- I began to hope for, if not expect, recognition. Now, in 2014, after nearly 25 years of extensive writing under my literary belt, and nearly 35 years of occasional work, to say nothing about the more than 3 decades before that of what you might call 'my lifespan warm-up', I still have not detected any sense of significant enthusiasm for my poems. There has been one individual exception, the editor of Kalimat Press, Anthony Lee, who offered back in 1999 to make a chapbook of my poems. There is also the surprising fact that, as a result of my efforts to promote, to publicize, my writing in cyberspace I now have millions of readers. ]]> Fri, 04 Jul 2014 18:35:18 GMT /slideshow/robert-frost-36641401/36641401 RonPrice@slideshare.net(RonPrice) Robert Frost: Some Personal Reflections RonPrice From time to time in these years of my retirement from half a century of a student-and-employment life, 1949 to 1999 and, in this case, in the last three weeks before I enter my 70s, I have taken an interest in some particular writer or poet, philosopher or historian, psychologist or sociologist, among other specialists in some discipline of learning. Usually I remember what led to this interest; sometimes I don't. In this case I remember coming across a review by that fine Australian essayist, Clive James, of a new volume of letters by Robert Forst.1 This led to my bringing together several pieces of my prose and poetry written during these my retirement years, 1999 to 2014, on the subject of Robert Frost. While gathering together these several pages of writing, my interest in Frost's reasons for writing poetry were piqued.-Ron Price with thanks to 1 Clive James, "The Sound of Sense: Clive James on Robert Frost," Prospect, 23/1/'14, on 4/7/'14. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- LIKE ROBERT FROST Part 1: Like Robert Frosts writing of poetry it was instinct that kept me going in the direction I took in the 1990s, and in the direction I also took in the 21st century. An inner feeling, an intuition, a combination of sense experience, my use of the rational faculty, and many decades of experience told me I was doing the right thing.1 Like Frost, I did not expect to have my poetry recognized although, after the first 25 years of my poetic production--say, 1980 to 2005-- I began to hope for, if not expect, recognition. Now, in 2014, after nearly 25 years of extensive writing under my literary belt, and nearly 35 years of occasional work, to say nothing about the more than 3 decades before that of what you might call 'my lifespan warm-up', I still have not detected any sense of significant enthusiasm for my poems. There has been one individual exception, the editor of Kalimat Press, Anthony Lee, who offered back in 1999 to make a chapbook of my poems. There is also the surprising fact that, as a result of my efforts to promote, to publicize, my writing in cyberspace I now have millions of readers. <img style="border:1px solid #C3E6D8;float:right;" alt="" src="https://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/ss_thumbnails/robertfrost-140704183518-phpapp01-thumbnail.jpg?width=120&amp;height=120&amp;fit=bounds" /><br> From time to time in these years of my retirement from half a century of a student-and-employment life, 1949 to 1999 and, in this case, in the last three weeks before I enter my 70s, I have taken an interest in some particular writer or poet, philosopher or historian, psychologist or sociologist, among other specialists in some discipline of learning. Usually I remember what led to this interest; sometimes I don&#39;t. In this case I remember coming across a review by that fine Australian essayist, Clive James, of a new volume of letters by Robert Forst.1 This led to my bringing together several pieces of my prose and poetry written during these my retirement years, 1999 to 2014, on the subject of Robert Frost. While gathering together these several pages of writing, my interest in Frost&#39;s reasons for writing poetry were piqued.-Ron Price with thanks to 1 Clive James, &quot;The Sound of Sense: Clive James on Robert Frost,&quot; Prospect, 23/1/&#39;14, on 4/7/&#39;14. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- LIKE ROBERT FROST Part 1: Like Robert Frosts writing of poetry it was instinct that kept me going in the direction I took in the 1990s, and in the direction I also took in the 21st century. An inner feeling, an intuition, a combination of sense experience, my use of the rational faculty, and many decades of experience told me I was doing the right thing.1 Like Frost, I did not expect to have my poetry recognized although, after the first 25 years of my poetic production--say, 1980 to 2005-- I began to hope for, if not expect, recognition. Now, in 2014, after nearly 25 years of extensive writing under my literary belt, and nearly 35 years of occasional work, to say nothing about the more than 3 decades before that of what you might call &#39;my lifespan warm-up&#39;, I still have not detected any sense of significant enthusiasm for my poems. There has been one individual exception, the editor of Kalimat Press, Anthony Lee, who offered back in 1999 to make a chapbook of my poems. There is also the surprising fact that, as a result of my efforts to promote, to publicize, my writing in cyberspace I now have millions of readers.
Robert Frost: Some Personal Reflections from Ron Price
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The material in this document, not originally part of the 6th edition of my autobiography, has been added as an appendix to that edition. This appendix may be useful for future autobiographical, biographical and historical work. Since such a substantial part of my life has been spent compiling and utilizing notebooks in my teaching, my personal study, and my personal writing, that it seemed relevant to include this commentary on my notebooks in this 6th edition of my memoirs or autobiography. Notebook is the general name I give to each hard copy file that I now have in my study, and in my computer, and to the files I once had as a teacher and student as far back as 1949. One can spend much time defining precisely what constitutes a file or a notebook. I do that in several places in my literary resource base and especially in this Volume 5 of my Notebooks. This Volume 5 of my Notebooks focuses on the Notebooks of other writers and provides an overview of some 300 of my own Notebooks. Insensibly, after I completed the first edition of my autobiography Pioneering Over Four Epochs in 1993, and as the next 21 years(1993 to 2014) ran their course, I became aware of the importance of the Notebooks of other writers as models for my own. The literary genre Notebooks needed, it seemed to me, some context as one of my literary products, an important part of my total literary oeuvre in all its forms. It was my hope that I might learn a few things from these other writers and, as a result, describe and define as precisely as I needed to do the concept of Notebook. ]]>
The material in this document, not originally part of the 6th edition of my autobiography, has been added as an appendix to that edition. This appendix may be useful for future autobiographical, biographical and historical work. Since such a substantial part of my life has been spent compiling and utilizing notebooks in my teaching, my personal study, and my personal writing, that it seemed relevant to include this commentary on my notebooks in this 6th edition of my memoirs or autobiography. Notebook is the general name I give to each hard copy file that I now have in my study, and in my computer, and to the files I once had as a teacher and student as far back as 1949. One can spend much time defining precisely what constitutes a file or a notebook. I do that in several places in my literary resource base and especially in this Volume 5 of my Notebooks. This Volume 5 of my Notebooks focuses on the Notebooks of other writers and provides an overview of some 300 of my own Notebooks. Insensibly, after I completed the first edition of my autobiography Pioneering Over Four Epochs in 1993, and as the next 21 years(1993 to 2014) ran their course, I became aware of the importance of the Notebooks of other writers as models for my own. The literary genre Notebooks needed, it seemed to me, some context as one of my literary products, an important part of my total literary oeuvre in all its forms. It was my hope that I might learn a few things from these other writers and, as a result, describe and define as precisely as I needed to do the concept of Notebook. ]]> Fri, 23 May 2014 06:14:49 GMT /slideshow/ron-prices-notebooks/35040311 RonPrice@slideshare.net(RonPrice) Ron Price's Notebooks: An Overview RonPrice The material in this document, not originally part of the 6th edition of my autobiography, has been added as an appendix to that edition. This appendix may be useful for future autobiographical, biographical and historical work. Since such a substantial part of my life has been spent compiling and utilizing notebooks in my teaching, my personal study, and my personal writing, that it seemed relevant to include this commentary on my notebooks in this 6th edition of my memoirs or autobiography. Notebook is the general name I give to each hard copy file that I now have in my study, and in my computer, and to the files I once had as a teacher and student as far back as 1949. One can spend much time defining precisely what constitutes a file or a notebook. I do that in several places in my literary resource base and especially in this Volume 5 of my Notebooks. This Volume 5 of my Notebooks focuses on the Notebooks of other writers and provides an overview of some 300 of my own Notebooks. Insensibly, after I completed the first edition of my autobiography Pioneering Over Four Epochs in 1993, and as the next 21 years(1993 to 2014) ran their course, I became aware of the importance of the Notebooks of other writers as models for my own. The literary genre Notebooks needed, it seemed to me, some context as one of my literary products, an important part of my total literary oeuvre in all its forms. It was my hope that I might learn a few things from these other writers and, as a result, describe and define as precisely as I needed to do the concept of Notebook. <img style="border:1px solid #C3E6D8;float:right;" alt="" src="https://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/ss_thumbnails/autobisectionixnotebooks1-140523061450-phpapp02-thumbnail.jpg?width=120&amp;height=120&amp;fit=bounds" /><br> The material in this document, not originally part of the 6th edition of my autobiography, has been added as an appendix to that edition. This appendix may be useful for future autobiographical, biographical and historical work. Since such a substantial part of my life has been spent compiling and utilizing notebooks in my teaching, my personal study, and my personal writing, that it seemed relevant to include this commentary on my notebooks in this 6th edition of my memoirs or autobiography. Notebook is the general name I give to each hard copy file that I now have in my study, and in my computer, and to the files I once had as a teacher and student as far back as 1949. One can spend much time defining precisely what constitutes a file or a notebook. I do that in several places in my literary resource base and especially in this Volume 5 of my Notebooks. This Volume 5 of my Notebooks focuses on the Notebooks of other writers and provides an overview of some 300 of my own Notebooks. Insensibly, after I completed the first edition of my autobiography Pioneering Over Four Epochs in 1993, and as the next 21 years(1993 to 2014) ran their course, I became aware of the importance of the Notebooks of other writers as models for my own. The literary genre Notebooks needed, it seemed to me, some context as one of my literary products, an important part of my total literary oeuvre in all its forms. It was my hope that I might learn a few things from these other writers and, as a result, describe and define as precisely as I needed to do the concept of Notebook.
Ron Price's Notebooks: An Overview from Ron Price
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When I was teaching English literature to matriculation students at a polytechnic in Perth Western Australia back in the early 1990s, in my last decade employed as a FT teacher and lecturer, I had my first serious and systematic contact with the metaphysical poets. It was, though, only a brief contact, since I was also up-to-my-ears-and-eyes in many other aspects of literature, to say nothing of the history and psychology courses I was also teaching at the time in a vocational college which did not then, and does not now, expect its charges to be highly-tuned to the intricacies of poetry in particular and literature in general.]]>
When I was teaching English literature to matriculation students at a polytechnic in Perth Western Australia back in the early 1990s, in my last decade employed as a FT teacher and lecturer, I had my first serious and systematic contact with the metaphysical poets. It was, though, only a brief contact, since I was also up-to-my-ears-and-eyes in many other aspects of literature, to say nothing of the history and psychology courses I was also teaching at the time in a vocational college which did not then, and does not now, expect its charges to be highly-tuned to the intricacies of poetry in particular and literature in general.]]> Tue, 13 May 2014 03:26:19 GMT /slideshow/some-thoughts-on-the-metaphysical-poets/34608647 RonPrice@slideshare.net(RonPrice) Thoughts-1984 to 2014-on the Metaphysical Poets RonPrice When I was teaching English literature to matriculation students at a polytechnic in Perth Western Australia back in the early 1990s, in my last decade employed as a FT teacher and lecturer, I had my first serious and systematic contact with the metaphysical poets. It was, though, only a brief contact, since I was also up-to-my-ears-and-eyes in many other aspects of literature, to say nothing of the history and psychology courses I was also teaching at the time in a vocational college which did not then, and does not now, expect its charges to be highly-tuned to the intricacies of poetry in particular and literature in general. <img style="border:1px solid #C3E6D8;float:right;" alt="" src="https://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/ss_thumbnails/johndonne-140513032619-phpapp02-thumbnail.jpg?width=120&amp;height=120&amp;fit=bounds" /><br> When I was teaching English literature to matriculation students at a polytechnic in Perth Western Australia back in the early 1990s, in my last decade employed as a FT teacher and lecturer, I had my first serious and systematic contact with the metaphysical poets. It was, though, only a brief contact, since I was also up-to-my-ears-and-eyes in many other aspects of literature, to say nothing of the history and psychology courses I was also teaching at the time in a vocational college which did not then, and does not now, expect its charges to be highly-tuned to the intricacies of poetry in particular and literature in general.
Thoughts-1984 to 2014-on the Metaphysical Poets from Ron Price
]]> 203 3 https://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/ss_thumbnails/johndonne-140513032619-phpapp02-thumbnail.jpg?width=120&height=120&fit=bounds document White http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posted 0 A New Orpheus in October 1852 /slideshow/a-new-orpheus-in-october-52/34108011 aneworpheusinoctober52-140429212907-phpapp02
One of the major science-fiction writers of the 20th century was Kurt Vonnegut Jr. He was born right at the start, in the first year, of the first century of the Formative Age, in 1922, within a Baha'i framework of history. Kurt Vonneguts first book, a sci-fi thriller, Player Piano, was released in June of 1952, four months before the Ten Year Crusade was launched in October 1952. This was the eve of the Holy Year commemorating the centenary of the rise of the Orb of Bahaullahs most sublime Revelation, the first intimation of His glorious Mission. The year I was born, 1944, the young adult, Vonnegut Jr., was taken prisoner by the Nazis; the year I joined the Bahai Faith, 1959, Vonnegut published his second novel The Sirens of Titan. Vonneguts third major book was published the year of the first election of the Universal House of Justice, 1963. When last I heard, in 2006, Vonnegut had been lecturing at the University of Iowa Writers Workshop and at Harvard University as well as being a Distinguished Professor at the City College of New York.-Ron Price with thanks to Several Internet Sites, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., June 2006.]]>
One of the major science-fiction writers of the 20th century was Kurt Vonnegut Jr. He was born right at the start, in the first year, of the first century of the Formative Age, in 1922, within a Baha'i framework of history. Kurt Vonneguts first book, a sci-fi thriller, Player Piano, was released in June of 1952, four months before the Ten Year Crusade was launched in October 1952. This was the eve of the Holy Year commemorating the centenary of the rise of the Orb of Bahaullahs most sublime Revelation, the first intimation of His glorious Mission. The year I was born, 1944, the young adult, Vonnegut Jr., was taken prisoner by the Nazis; the year I joined the Bahai Faith, 1959, Vonnegut published his second novel The Sirens of Titan. Vonneguts third major book was published the year of the first election of the Universal House of Justice, 1963. When last I heard, in 2006, Vonnegut had been lecturing at the University of Iowa Writers Workshop and at Harvard University as well as being a Distinguished Professor at the City College of New York.-Ron Price with thanks to Several Internet Sites, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., June 2006.]]> Tue, 29 Apr 2014 21:29:07 GMT /slideshow/a-new-orpheus-in-october-52/34108011 RonPrice@slideshare.net(RonPrice) A New Orpheus in October 1852 RonPrice One of the major science-fiction writers of the 20th century was Kurt Vonnegut Jr. He was born right at the start, in the first year, of the first century of the Formative Age, in 1922, within a Baha'i framework of history. Kurt Vonneguts first book, a sci-fi thriller, Player Piano, was released in June of 1952, four months before the Ten Year Crusade was launched in October 1952. This was the eve of the Holy Year commemorating the centenary of the rise of the Orb of Bahaullahs most sublime Revelation, the first intimation of His glorious Mission. The year I was born, 1944, the young adult, Vonnegut Jr., was taken prisoner by the Nazis; the year I joined the Bahai Faith, 1959, Vonnegut published his second novel The Sirens of Titan. Vonneguts third major book was published the year of the first election of the Universal House of Justice, 1963. When last I heard, in 2006, Vonnegut had been lecturing at the University of Iowa Writers Workshop and at Harvard University as well as being a Distinguished Professor at the City College of New York.-Ron Price with thanks to Several Internet Sites, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., June 2006. <img style="border:1px solid #C3E6D8;float:right;" alt="" src="https://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/ss_thumbnails/aneworpheusinoctober52-140429212907-phpapp02-thumbnail.jpg?width=120&amp;height=120&amp;fit=bounds" /><br> One of the major science-fiction writers of the 20th century was Kurt Vonnegut Jr. He was born right at the start, in the first year, of the first century of the Formative Age, in 1922, within a Baha&#39;i framework of history. Kurt Vonneguts first book, a sci-fi thriller, Player Piano, was released in June of 1952, four months before the Ten Year Crusade was launched in October 1952. This was the eve of the Holy Year commemorating the centenary of the rise of the Orb of Bahaullahs most sublime Revelation, the first intimation of His glorious Mission. The year I was born, 1944, the young adult, Vonnegut Jr., was taken prisoner by the Nazis; the year I joined the Bahai Faith, 1959, Vonnegut published his second novel The Sirens of Titan. Vonneguts third major book was published the year of the first election of the Universal House of Justice, 1963. When last I heard, in 2006, Vonnegut had been lecturing at the University of Iowa Writers Workshop and at Harvard University as well as being a Distinguished Professor at the City College of New York.-Ron Price with thanks to Several Internet Sites, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., June 2006.
A New Orpheus in October 1852 from Ron Price
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What is this old age which seems to have insensibly and sensibly crept into the recesses of my life, since about the age of 50? This grey eminence seems to be the result of a combination of factors which I will list below and as follows: a need for testosterone shots to compensate for failing energies back in '99 as I was about to retire; the loss of libido which was as strong as ever until my prostate gland needed reducing in size; putting on weight--some 80 pounds--from my 40s to my 60s; increasing quantities of white-and-grey hair; not feeling the heat of enthusiasm and desire for physical activity that once characterized my life year in and year out due to yet another medication package; the simple incremental advance of late adulthood those years from 60 to 80 according and one model of human development used by psychologists. ]]>
What is this old age which seems to have insensibly and sensibly crept into the recesses of my life, since about the age of 50? This grey eminence seems to be the result of a combination of factors which I will list below and as follows: a need for testosterone shots to compensate for failing energies back in '99 as I was about to retire; the loss of libido which was as strong as ever until my prostate gland needed reducing in size; putting on weight--some 80 pounds--from my 40s to my 60s; increasing quantities of white-and-grey hair; not feeling the heat of enthusiasm and desire for physical activity that once characterized my life year in and year out due to yet another medication package; the simple incremental advance of late adulthood those years from 60 to 80 according and one model of human development used by psychologists. ]]> Tue, 29 Apr 2014 21:16:50 GMT /slideshow/old-age-34107064/34107064 RonPrice@slideshare.net(RonPrice) Old Age: Some Reflections RonPrice What is this old age which seems to have insensibly and sensibly crept into the recesses of my life, since about the age of 50? This grey eminence seems to be the result of a combination of factors which I will list below and as follows: a need for testosterone shots to compensate for failing energies back in '99 as I was about to retire; the loss of libido which was as strong as ever until my prostate gland needed reducing in size; putting on weight--some 80 pounds--from my 40s to my 60s; increasing quantities of white-and-grey hair; not feeling the heat of enthusiasm and desire for physical activity that once characterized my life year in and year out due to yet another medication package; the simple incremental advance of late adulthood those years from 60 to 80 according and one model of human development used by psychologists. <img style="border:1px solid #C3E6D8;float:right;" alt="" src="https://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/ss_thumbnails/old-age-140429211651-phpapp01-thumbnail.jpg?width=120&amp;height=120&amp;fit=bounds" /><br> What is this old age which seems to have insensibly and sensibly crept into the recesses of my life, since about the age of 50? This grey eminence seems to be the result of a combination of factors which I will list below and as follows: a need for testosterone shots to compensate for failing energies back in &#39;99 as I was about to retire; the loss of libido which was as strong as ever until my prostate gland needed reducing in size; putting on weight--some 80 pounds--from my 40s to my 60s; increasing quantities of white-and-grey hair; not feeling the heat of enthusiasm and desire for physical activity that once characterized my life year in and year out due to yet another medication package; the simple incremental advance of late adulthood those years from 60 to 80 according and one model of human development used by psychologists.
Old Age: Some Reflections from Ron Price
]]> 893 2 https://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/ss_thumbnails/old-age-140429211651-phpapp01-thumbnail.jpg?width=120&height=120&fit=bounds document Black http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posted 0 Mickey Rooney: Some Personal Reflections /slideshow/mickey-rooney-some-personal-reflections/34106866 mickeyrooney-140429211413-phpapp01
Mickey Rooney(1920-2014) was an American film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and stage appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. He died yesterday. ]]>
Mickey Rooney(1920-2014) was an American film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and stage appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. He died yesterday. ]]> Tue, 29 Apr 2014 21:14:13 GMT /slideshow/mickey-rooney-some-personal-reflections/34106866 RonPrice@slideshare.net(RonPrice) Mickey Rooney: Some Personal Reflections RonPrice Mickey Rooney(1920-2014) was an American film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and stage appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. He died yesterday. <img style="border:1px solid #C3E6D8;float:right;" alt="" src="https://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/ss_thumbnails/mickeyrooney-140429211413-phpapp01-thumbnail.jpg?width=120&amp;height=120&amp;fit=bounds" /><br> Mickey Rooney(1920-2014) was an American film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and stage appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. He died yesterday.
Mickey Rooney: Some Personal Reflections from Ron Price
]]> 125 2 https://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/ss_thumbnails/mickeyrooney-140429211413-phpapp01-thumbnail.jpg?width=120&height=120&fit=bounds document Black http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posted 0 Three Hannibals in My Life: 1994 to 2014 /slideshow/three-hannibal/34106107 hannibal-140429210448-phpapp02
I write below, in this somewhat lengthy series of 3 prose-poems, brief sketches of three Hannibals. They are Hannibals whom I came to know about in some detail in the last two decades, 1994 to 2014, from the age of 50 to 70. This 20 year period involved the last 5 years of my working life as a teacher-lecturer and extensive commitments in Baha'i administration, as well as the first 15 years of my retirement from FT, PT and most volunteer-work, after a 50 year student-and-employment life: 1949 to 1999.]]>
I write below, in this somewhat lengthy series of 3 prose-poems, brief sketches of three Hannibals. They are Hannibals whom I came to know about in some detail in the last two decades, 1994 to 2014, from the age of 50 to 70. This 20 year period involved the last 5 years of my working life as a teacher-lecturer and extensive commitments in Baha'i administration, as well as the first 15 years of my retirement from FT, PT and most volunteer-work, after a 50 year student-and-employment life: 1949 to 1999.]]> Tue, 29 Apr 2014 21:04:48 GMT /slideshow/three-hannibal/34106107 RonPrice@slideshare.net(RonPrice) Three Hannibals in My Life: 1994 to 2014 RonPrice I write below, in this somewhat lengthy series of 3 prose-poems, brief sketches of three Hannibals. They are Hannibals whom I came to know about in some detail in the last two decades, 1994 to 2014, from the age of 50 to 70. This 20 year period involved the last 5 years of my working life as a teacher-lecturer and extensive commitments in Baha'i administration, as well as the first 15 years of my retirement from FT, PT and most volunteer-work, after a 50 year student-and-employment life: 1949 to 1999. <img style="border:1px solid #C3E6D8;float:right;" alt="" src="https://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/ss_thumbnails/hannibal-140429210448-phpapp02-thumbnail.jpg?width=120&amp;height=120&amp;fit=bounds" /><br> I write below, in this somewhat lengthy series of 3 prose-poems, brief sketches of three Hannibals. They are Hannibals whom I came to know about in some detail in the last two decades, 1994 to 2014, from the age of 50 to 70. This 20 year period involved the last 5 years of my working life as a teacher-lecturer and extensive commitments in Baha&#39;i administration, as well as the first 15 years of my retirement from FT, PT and most volunteer-work, after a 50 year student-and-employment life: 1949 to 1999.
Three Hannibals in My Life: 1994 to 2014 from Ron Price
]]> 244 2 https://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/ss_thumbnails/hannibal-140429210448-phpapp02-thumbnail.jpg?width=120&height=120&fit=bounds document Black http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/posted 0 https://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/profile-photo-RonPrice-48x48.jpg?cb=1666157587 In the last 19 years, 1997 to 2015, I have published 100s of articles and columns, posts and blogs, essays and ebooks. My website is now nearly 4 years into its 4th edition. I have only listed several published items below since space does not permit any more. My resume can be googled at: "RonPrice resume" and it is also found at my website: http://www.ronpriceepoch.com/ 1.*Essays, Interviews and Articles on the Internet at: 1.1 The Baha'i Academic Resource Library also entitled Bah叩'鱈 Library Online has several hundred items posted there, 1999 to 2014; and at 1.2 An estimated 8000+ other internet sites containing many millions of my words at: posts, essays, articles, ebooks, b... http:www.ronpriceepoch.com/ https://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/ss_thumbnails/paradigm-21-4-15-150422054257-conversion-gate02-thumbnail.jpg?width=320&height=320&fit=bounds slideshow/the-bahai-culture-of-learning-and-growth-1996-to-2015/47282108 The Baha&#39;i Culture of ... https://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/ss_thumbnails/jesseowens-150217201133-conversion-gate01-thumbnail.jpg?width=320&height=320&fit=bounds slideshow/jesse-owens-44810772/44810772 Jesse Owens: A Retrosp... https://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/ss_thumbnails/laurariding-150217200824-conversion-gate01-thumbnail.jpg?width=320&height=320&fit=bounds slideshow/laura-riding/44810698 Laura Riding